tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post4778264378554302799..comments2024-03-21T05:29:07.463-04:00Comments on THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: LONDON NOT WORTH VISITINGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post-39932642912194446852013-01-23T17:14:43.487-05:002013-01-23T17:14:43.487-05:00I was reading a Sherlock Holmes detective story, &...I was reading a Sherlock Holmes detective story, "A Study in Scarlet,' in which a wounded Dr. Watson, just back from the Afghan wars, is seeking lodgings that he can afford on his small military stipend:<br /><br />"I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air- or as free as an income of eleven shilling and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."<br /><br />Things haven't changed much.Lionelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08032790950763006306noreply@blogger.com